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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

Study and review of the Viewpoint of Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Texts against Iranian Anti-Caliphate Movements in the 2nd and 3rd century A.H [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2019
Early Islamic centuries (1st to 3rd A.H) are significant in every scholarly study of different periods in Iranian history due to their intense transformation and profound developments within the Iranian society and also the encounter of Zoroastrian and ...
Esmaeil Sangari, Mohsen Yaqubi
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Did the Āẕar Kaivānīs Know Zoroastrian Middle Persian Sources?

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022
The Āẕar Kaivānīs, a syncretistic religious school in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, combined elements from Islam, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Ešrāqī philosophy.
Kianoosh Rezania
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Glass from Teniky (Madagascar): Geochemical Evidence for Multiple Production Systems and Long‐Distance Exchange in the Mediaeval Indian Ocean

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inland rock‐cut site of Teniky, located in the Isalo massif of southern Madagascar, represents an exceptional archaeological context recently dated to the 11th–12th centuries ad, corresponding to the early phases of settlement on the island.
Jean Rodier, Bernard Gratuze, Vincent Serneels   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
wiley   +1 more source

Driven by risk: Understanding reference‐dependent preferences using simulated auto racing

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Using data from over 56,000 simulated auto races worldwide, we analyze risk‐taking at the margins, consistent with reference‐dependent preferences. We show that participants' risk‐taking changes when a desired intermittent outcome is presented, sometimes at the expense of a more favorable expected end state.
James Hilliard, Annette Hofmann, David Weber   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Trust, Social Roles, and Autonomy

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop a comprehensive account of self‐trust in its role‐mediated, general and universal forms, highlight the connection between self‐trust and personal autonomy, and argue that we can have too much or too little self‐trust. Both can undermine personal autonomy.
Amy Mullin, Suddhasatwa Guharoy
wiley   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source

Death as Initiation (Rebirth) [PDF]

مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2016
Human existence lies in the heart of existentialism. This school of thought deals with the challenges of human responsibility and the possibility of improvement and progress of human life.
Mohsen Botlab Akbarabadi, Masoumeh Barsam   +1 more
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